Re: [PATCH v2] vsprintf: introduce %dE for error constants

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Wed Aug 28 2019 - 08:02:53 EST


On (08/28/19 14:54), Jani Nikula wrote:
[..]
> > I personally think that this feature is not worth the code, data,
> > and bikeshedding.
>
> The obvious alternative, I think already mentioned, is to just add
> strerror() or similar as a function. I doubt there'd be much opposition
> to that. Folks could use %s and strerr(ret). And a follow-up could add
> the special format specifier if needed.

Yeah, I'd say that strerror() would be a better alternative
to vsprintf() specifier. (if we decide to add such functionality).

-ss